CPUSA.org is published by the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and struggling continuously for over 107 years for people and planet before profits, and for socialism.

Editorial Collective

Joe Sims, Editor in Chief
Eric Brooks, Managing Editor
Cameron Harrison, Associate Editor

Contact: editors@cpusa.org

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions of political and news analysis articles, opinion and commentary pieces, photographs and videos, book, film, theater, and music reviews, and other items of interest that approach their subject from a Marxist-Leninist and working class perspective.

Submission is no guarantee of publication.

CPUSA.org receives many submissions, and while we strive to respond to every one, it is not always possible.

CPUSA.org reserves the right to edit and/or reject submissions for length, factual and grammatical accuracy, clarity, and appropriateness of subject matter.

We do not publish material that is defamatory or disparages any person or group on account of race, ethnicity or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or health status, religious affiliation, or age.

Opinion articles and other commentary pieces published in CPUSA.org reflect the views of their authors. Only editorials express the institutional voice and opinion of the Communist Party USA.

Submissions should be emailed to editors@cpusa.org as attachments or links in one of the following formats:

• Google Document link
• DOCX – Microsoft Word
• MD – Markdown
• ODT – Open Document Text
• TXT – Plain Text

If there are available photographs or other images with Creative Commons or public domain licensing that pertain to the submission, please provide their links.

If the article has been submitted to other publications, or published previously somewhere else, please provide that information at the top of the file as well.

Before Writing Articles

Not mandatory, but recommended: don’t hesitate to reach out to the editorial collective via email prior to submitting to see if there is an interest in the proposed topic.

Include the author’s name, email address, and telephone number at the top of the submission file. If the article is to be published under a different name, please provide that name along with the author’s real name.

Style Guide

• CPUSA.org uses a modified AP Stylebook as defined by the People’s World Style Guide, with the further changes defined below.
• Articles submitted to CPUSA.org should be at least 500 words and no more than 3,000 words in length.
• The name of our publication is CPUSA.org. If using our name in an article, it should be italicized.
• It is required that em-dashes have a space before and after the dash.
• There should be one single space between the end of a sentence and the start of the next sentence in a paragraph.
• The Merriam-Webster dictionary is the authoritative source for spelling.
• Do not use footnotes; provide hyperlinks to sources and any reference materials instead. Include links for all quotes or references to materials available online.
• Double spaces are not allowed. Truncate double spaces to a single space.

Tone

In general use a third person, formal, tone appropriate for reality-based journalistic content.

Photograph Submission

Those looking to contribute photographs should consult Submitting Photos to People’s World: Basic Guidelines.

Permission

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. Please include our web address, CPUSA.org.

Context

Use CPUSA.org, Political Affairs, Marxist Internet Archive for general context for text references.

Description

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